Dance

Alston Nash: A Visual History of the Richard Alston Dance Company

Richard Alston, Martin Lawrance, Chris Nash

The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage

Locked down. Locked in. But living.

Choreography Jordan James Bridge, Daniel de Andrade, Gary Clarke

Hofesh Shechter's Untitled

Choreography, music and direction by Hofesh Shechter

Emerging Dancer 2020

Grand Finale

Choreography & music Hofesh Shechter

Cinderella

David Bintley, Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet

Matthew Bourne, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Are You Numb Yet?

Anthony and Kel Matsena

Jekyll and Hyde

Drew McOnie

Sadler's Wells, ENB and Rambert receive funding

25 October 2020

Three dance companies have been awarded critical Cultural Recovery grants.

One Dance UK online awards

24 October 2020

One Dance UK is moving its annual awards ceremony online format this year.

Dancing in the Museum

24 October 2020

Newcastle neighbours Dance City and The Discovery Museum are co-operating to offer extra free dance rehearsal space.

New NE dance commission offered

24 October 2020

Newcastle’s Dance City and partners are offering a £25,000 dance commission, Made in the North East.

ROH opens for live ballet and opera

23 October 2020

The Royal Opera House is to open for 'socially distanced' live performances with a repertory of favourites from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.

One Dance and Guest promote mental wellbeing in dance

23 October 2020

One Dance UK has teamed up with Rick Guest on Invisible Threads Part 1, part of a new programme to promote mental wellbeing in the dance sector.

Birmingham REP welcomes back live performances

23 October 2020

Birmingham REP has become the first major venue in the city to host a live performance: the world première of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Lazuli Sky.

Greenwich's new podcast of dance artist interviews

21 October 2020

Greenwich Dance has launched a new podcast for dance professionals, Talking Moves, in which Melanie Precious interviews dance artists about their creative practice, experience and ideas.

Tracing Movement support for freelance dancers

21 October 2020

Tracing Movement, led by choreographer Stuart Winter, offers support and development to professional dancers not currently able to train or perform due to COVID-19.

Scrooge saves Christmas

21 October 2020

A Christmas Carol, a retelling of the Charles Dickens Christmas tale, will be coming to cinemas and selected theatres from 20 November.

ENB School partners with bbodance

20 October 2020

English National Ballet School has formed a new partnership with bbodance as it returns to face-to-face training.

ENB's Nutcracker Delights at Coliseum for Christmas

13 October 2020

English National Ballet returns to the London Coliseum with Nutcracker Delights this Christmas and Reunion: An Evening with English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells in November.

The Little Match Girl at Sadler's Wells for Christmas

9 October 2020

The Little Match Girl, directed and choreographed by Arthur Pita, will return to Sadler’s Wells main stage this Christmas, following five festive seasons at the Lilian Baylis Studio.

ENB Dance for Parkinson's programme goes digital

9 October 2020

English National Ballet is moving the next term of its engagement programme Dance for Parkinson’s online this autumn.

Elmhurst Ballet new sustainable uniform

8 October 2020

Elmhurst Ballet School students are training towards a career in dance in a new uniform made from sustainable fabrics from ocean waste and abandoned fishing nets.

Sadler’s Wells 'socially distanced' autumn season

8 October 2020

The Sadler’s Wells season of live dance and digital content for autumn 2020 includes performances for 'socially distanced' audiences and online.

Top ballet companies stream from around the world

8 October 2020

World Ballet Day returns on 29 October 2020 for a global celebration.

Time to start dancing!

6 October 2020

An immersive audio experience written by North East playwright Alison Carr will be launched and available to download from Wednesday 28 October.

Dance Umbrella goes digital

4 October 2020

2020 marks the 42nd year of Dance Umbrella and Emma Gladstone’s 7th and final year as Artistic Director and Chief Executive.

Dancing Times magazine celebrates 110 years

30 September 2020

Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years this October.

Akram Khan Co turns 20 with The Silent Burn

26 September 2020

Akram Khan Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a live-streamed programme of work, The Silent Burn Project.

Rural Dance goes digital

26 September 2020

This autumn, the Rural Touring Dance Initiative will present a series of online events.

Chickenshed takes Globaleyes online

26 September 2020

Chickenshed presents YouTube Premiere of Globaleyes on Friday 25 September 7.30PM.

Royal Ballet back on stage

26 September 2020

The Royal Ballet is returning to the stage for a special live-streamed celebration performance.

Shechter's new short film Untitled online

24 September 2020

Hofesh Shechter Company has created a new short ten-minute film, Untitled, performed by Rachel Fallon.

Royal Opera House Pocket Photobook

22 September 2020

A compact photo guide to the Royal Opera House, home to The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, is on sale now.

Royal Ballet premières Doncaster Dances

19 September 2020

This summer The Royal Ballet, in partnership with Cast and Doncaster Council, set themselves a mission to get Doncaster Dancing, resulting in a community dance film called Doncaster Dances.

Students and staff return to Elmhurst

19 September 2020

After five months of lockdown, students and staff are to return to Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham.

ENB names production studio after donor

19 September 2020

English National Ballet has named the main studio in its new home at London City Island the Holloway Production Studio in recognition of a substantial donation from Charles Holloway.

Arthur Pita's Mother film release

19 September 2020

The Mother, a short film featuring moments from Arthur Pita’s ballet of the same name starring Natalia Osipova and Jonathan Goddard will be released online.

Let's Dance International Frontiers live and online

18 September 2020

Serendipity is to present a live online preview of the Leicester-based Let's Dance International Frontiers festival for 2021 in October 2020.

Digital dance from Lawrence Batley

17 September 2020

Locked down. Locked in. But living is a digital triple bill of three site specific dance productions from the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

Nominations for One Dance UK Awards 2020

11 September 2020

The One Dance UK Awards are back for their third year, shining a spotlight on those who have positively impacted the dance sector over the past twelve months.

Eagling's Marie Rambert-inspired Remembrance film gets online première

11 September 2020

New English Ballet Theatre’s filmed production of Wayne Eagling’s Marie Rambert-inspired Remembrance will première on YouTube.

Choreographic challenge from NYB

11 September 2020

A new choreographic challenge for autumn from National Youth Ballet invites young dancers to explore how it feels to re-emerge and engage with the world around them as lockdown eases.

Rambert to perform live from Southbank studios

11 September 2020

Rambert's new première from Wim Vandekeybus, Draw From Within, will be streamed live from Rambert's studios in September.

Sadler’s Wells autumn programme digital and live

10 September 2020

In autumn, Sadler’s Wells will present a new digital season and the first live performances at the venue since lockdown.

Book collaboration between choreographer Alston and photographer Nash

10 September 2020

Alston Nash, a limited-edition book of photographs of Richard Alston Dance Company taken over 25 years by dance photographer Chris Nash, is on sale now.

ROH autumn and winter cinema broadcasts

10 September 2020

The Royal Opera House's autumn and winter 2020 cinema season will include four opera and ballet favourites broadcast to cinemas across the globe.

Royal Opera House opens its doors

4 September 2020

Royal Opera House is to reopen for the first time in six months as part of Open House London.

ENB launches new on-demand video platform

2 September 2020

English National Ballet is to launch its new ENB at Home video-on-demand platform with a digital season of short works for camera.

Durante is new Artistic Director of ENB School

1 September 2020

Viviana Durante will become Artistic Director of English National Ballet School for the 2020–21 academic year, following her appointment as Director of Dance in August 2019.

Catch Me at Greenwich + Docklands

28 August 2020

Catch Me is a dance-circus outdoor performance at Greenwich + Docklands International Festival presented by Upswing and directed by AD Vicki Amedume.

ROH online autumn opera and ballet concerts

28 August 2020

The Royal Opera House is to make two evenings of opera and ballet live from Covent Garden available to view online.

Elmhurst Ballet School invites late admissions

28 August 2020

Elmhurst Ballet School is inviting late applications for admission to its three-year programme working towards a Level 6 Diploma in Professional Dance.

Rosie Kay back on stage in Birmingham after 'retirement'

25 August 2020

Birmingham-based choreographer Rosie Kay is returning to the stage to perform the première of her new solo work as part of a triple bill, Absolute Solo II.

NYDC dancers back in Sadler’s Wells

25 August 2020

The National Youth Dance Company 2019/20 cohort and Guest Artistic Director Russell Maliphant will reunite at Sadler’s Wells to complete their year, culminating in a set of private COVID-secure 'sharings' for friends and family.

Poetry and movement film on Wales’s involvement in slave trade

24 August 2020

The next short poetry and movement film from National Dance Company Wales and Literature Wales, Plethu/Weave, focuses on Wales’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

Bourne's Red Shoes cinema release rescheduled

20 August 2020

The postponed cinema release of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes has now been rescheduled for September 2020.

balletLORENT online

20 August 2020

Newcastle’s balletLORENT has announced three ways in which they are continuing to work during the pandemic.

New partnership between BRB and Birmingham REP

20 August 2020

A new partnership between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham REP will be launched with four shows for live audiences in October.

Sadler’s Wells and Breakin’ Convention request Our Bodies Back

19 August 2020

Sadler’s Wells and Breakin’ Convention have released Our Bodies Back, a new dance film that speaks out against racism and honours the lives of black women.

Belgrade ascends with new talent development scheme

17 August 2020

A Coventry up-and-coming dance company will be the first to benefit from a new talent development scheme started by the city’s Belgrade Theatre.

Autumn & Christmas cancellations at Sadler's Wells

14 August 2020

The current period of closure has been extended until January 2021 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Lilian Baylis Studio and Peacock Theatre.

Sadler’s Wells in consultation process with staff

13 August 2020

Sadler’s Wells has entered a consultation process with its staff on "proposed organisational change and efficiency measures" which could see 26% of its workforce made redundant.

The Solo Collective from Dance City

12 August 2020

Dance City’s post-graduate company The Collective is to première a digital dance performance.

Protein's Sun Inside plays virtual Edinburgh

11 August 2020

Protein Dance's The Sun Inside, a film created by Luca Silvestrini, Roswitha Chesher and Andy Pink, will be available as part of ZOO’s 2020 digital Edinburgh programme.

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer at the Barbican

8 August 2020

This autumn, Barbican Art Gallery stages the first major exhibition on dancer and choreographer Michael Clark.

BRB departures and arrivals

8 August 2020

As Birmingham Royal Ballet begins its preparations for a return to performance, Director Carlos Acosta has announced list of joining and departing company members.

Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet on DVD

8 August 2020

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet will be released on DVD and Blu-ray following the release of download and streaming versions.

BRB Cinderella to be streamed online

31 July 2020

David Bintley's production of Cinderella will be broadcast in full on Birmingham Royal Ballet’s web site and Facebook page at the end of its Home from Home series.

Jeyasingh’s Contagion at Grange Festival

31 July 2020

Shobana Jeyasingh’s Contagion, created to commemorate the 1918 Spanish flu, will be available this summer on film in SJD Shorts and live at The Grange Festival.

Sadler's Wells cancels further performances

30 July 2020

Sadler's Wells and Peacock Theatres have extended their cancellation of performances across until 10 November 2020.

NDCWales & Literature Wales digital film collaboration

29 July 2020

Plethu/Weave will see NDCWales dancers partnered with Literature Wales commissioned poets on short solo film performances to première at the National Eisteddfod’s online digital festival.

Elmhurst Ballet School dance masterclasses

29 July 2020

Elmhurst Ballet School, the vocational school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet, will move its annual summer school online this August with its Back to Dance Masterclasses.